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Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of...
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11 Facts About The Unique State of Maine
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Archaeologists Unearth a Building in the Valley of the Temples
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Rodney King & The LA Riots: A Terrible Episode of Violence
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Authoritarian vs. Democratic Socialism: What’s the Difference?
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Hidden History
A Tale of Kale (And Cabbage, and Brussels Sprouts, and Broccoli, and Cauliflower…)
These vegetables (and Kohlrabi, and Collard Greens, and Gai Lan, and Bok Choy, and Red Cabbage) may...
2 months ago
These vegetables (and Kohlrabi, and Collard Greens, and Gai Lan, and Bok Choy, and Red Cabbage) may be familiar in the kitchen, but they do not exist anywhere in nature—and they are all the same species of plant. The Brassica is a very large and diverse family of plants, with...
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The Scottish Play
Canon Club podcast: Macbeth
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Canon Club podcast: Macbeth
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5 Horrific Stories from the Old Testament
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When Was the First Flight in History?
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Who Was George Hodel?
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Atlas Shrugged: Ayn Rand’s Most Famous Novel Explained
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Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
The Essential Greeks
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Has Depression Always Been Around? The History of a Timeless Disorder
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A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, December 8, 2023
Apologies for running a fireside so quickly after the gap week, but with the end of the semester...
a year ago
Apologies for running a fireside so quickly after the gap week, but with the end of the semester coming as the job market gets busier, I haven’t had time to finish the next post on shield walls just yet. That will come out next week for sure though, as it is close to done. For …...
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13 Surprising Facts About William Shakespeare
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Why Is the Ship of Theseus Paradox Still Relevant Today?
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10 Essential Works of Greek Philosophy
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How Did the Babylonian Exile Shape Judaism?
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What Was the Sturmabteilung?
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7 Scottish Inventors & Their Inventions
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Las Vegas Gallery to Sell $100 Million Leonardo Sculpture
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Spartan Training
The Ultimate Regime
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Everything You Need to Know About Claude Monet’s Water Lilies
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Sufism: Mystical Islam in Africa
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The "New" Ancient City
Discovering Kavala...
8 months ago
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The Tulsa Race Massacre of 1921
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African History...
Taming and domesticating the wild: the War-Elephants of ancient Aksum and Kush
In his 1668 description of the West African kingdom of Benin, the Dutch writer Olfert Dapper...
3 weeks ago
In his 1668 description of the West African kingdom of Benin, the Dutch writer Olfert Dapper reported that “The king shows himself only once a year to his people, going out of his court on horseback, accompanied by three or four hundred noblemen on horseback.”
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Groovy Ads That Sold Woolworths’ UK Line of Baby Doll Cosmetics
Here are several examples of the many groovy psychedelic adverts produced in the 1960s to promote...
6 months ago
Here are several examples of the many groovy psychedelic adverts produced in the 1960s to promote Woolworths’ UK line of “Baby Doll” cosmetics in the late 1960s. These “pop-style” adverts appeared in the country’s magazines for teenagers, like Jackie, RAVE, Flair, Queen and...
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6 Lesser-Known Geoglyphs Outside of Nazca
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Classical Wisdom
Ancient Atomists
The Origins of Oppenheimer?
a year ago
The Origins of Oppenheimer?
A Collection of...
Collections: Teaching Paradox, Imperator, Part IIIb:
This is the second half of the third and final part of our three-part (I, IIa, IIb, IIIa) look at...
4 months ago
This is the second half of the third and final part of our three-part (I, IIa, IIb, IIIa) look at Paradox Interactives ancient grand strategy game, Imperator: Rome, which covers (inter alia) the period of the collapse of the Roman Republic, which we generally call the Late...
Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for March 2024
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of...
9 months ago
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of March.
Summary Of Changes
100r.co, added chainplates, knots, washing dishes, receiving mail, updated our notes on diy carbonation system, and refrigeration.
Uxn, added 2 new commands...
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Residential Schools in the US & Canada: The Lost Children
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Cruising New York City With Video Blogger Nelson Sullivan In The 1980s
“Thanks to his scrupulous attention, Nelson’s left behind a treasure trove of late-night videos...
10 months ago
“Thanks to his scrupulous attention, Nelson’s left behind a treasure trove of late-night videos that, even more than the Warhol diaries, trenchantly capture the party years in all their gleeful decadent fun.” – Michael Musto on New York City video blogger (vlogging) Nelson...
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Paracelsus in the Ottoman Empire: Adoption or Adaptation?
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Classical Wisdom
The Life of Aristotle
More Than A Philosopher
12 months ago
African History...
The Meroitic script and the documents of ancient Kush (ca. 300BC-450CE)
The Meroitic writing system of the kingdom of Kush is one of the best-known, yet most enigmatic...
5 days ago
The Meroitic writing system of the kingdom of Kush is one of the best-known, yet most enigmatic scripts of the ancient world.
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What Was Emerson’s Vision for the American Scholar?
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Should We Interpret Literature in Its Social Context? Adorno’s Answer
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A History of Gibraltar: The Rock & the Ages
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Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Sappho, Latin Literature, and more...
a year ago
Sappho, Latin Literature, and more...
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What Was the Ancient Greek Pankration?
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Who Were the Armored Pioneers Between the World Wars?
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How Did the Ancient Egyptian Religion Change Through the Centuries?
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American Tourist Smashed Roman Artifacts at the Israel Museum
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World War II’s Unbreakable Code: How Did the Navajo Code Talkers Win the Pacific?
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Who Won the Battle of Perryville?
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CrimethInc.
Georgia: The Firework Protests : A Report and Video Footage from the Streets of Tbilisi
Tuesday, December 3 marked the sixth consecutive night of clashes between police and anti-government...
a month ago
Tuesday, December 3 marked the sixth consecutive night of clashes between police and anti-government protesters in Tbilisi, the capital of Georgia. We offer the following short report and video footage courtesy of Georgian anarchists.
The demonstrators are responding to the...
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Belgian Revolution: The Independence Movement That Surprised Europe
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The Louvre Seeks Donations to Buy Chardin’s Strawberries Work
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African History...
State and society in southern Ethiopia: the Oromo kingdom of Jimma (ca. 1830-1932)
Modern Ethiopia is a diverse country comprised of many communities and languages, each with its...
11 months ago
Modern Ethiopia is a diverse country comprised of many communities and languages, each with its history and contribution to the country's cultural heritage. While Ethiopian historiography is often focused on the historical developments in the northern regions of the country, some...
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What Was Jesus’s Religious Background?
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10 Landmarks That Should Be Considered Wonders of the World
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Classical Wisdom
Quick Notification
In Search of Homer
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“Four Dead in Ohio”: The Kent State Shootings
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Decoding Titian’s Poesie Series
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Hundred Rabbits
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Here we go again, time for another passage. We left Fiji on October 23rd 2018, eager to spend some...
over a year ago
Here we go again, time for another passage. We left Fiji on October 23rd 2018, eager to spend some time on the water again. Our plan, was to stop by Tuvalu, maybe Kiribati, before arriving in Majuro in the Marshall islands where we'd be spending two months before moving off west...
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American Modernist Florine Stettheimer Gets Catalogue Raisonné
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African History...
The forgotten ruins of Botswana: stone towns at the desert's edge.
At its height in the 17th century, the stone towns of the ‘zimbabwe culture’ encompassed an area the...
7 months ago
At its height in the 17th century, the stone towns of the ‘zimbabwe culture’ encompassed an area the size of France. The hundreds of ruins spread across three countries in south-eastern Africa are among the continent’s best-preserved historical monuments and have been the subject...
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The Mythical Green Anaconda of the Amazon Rainforest
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Battle of Cynoscephalae: Macedonian Phalanx vs Roman Legion
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The Full English Breakfast: History of a British Tradition
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What Is Nestorianism?
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Open Culture
John Coltrane Draws a Picture Illustrating the Mathematics of Music
Physicist and saxophonist Stephon Alexander has argued in his many public lectures and his book The...
2 weeks ago
Physicist and saxophonist Stephon Alexander has argued in his many public lectures and his book The Jazz of Physics that Albert Einstein and John Coltrane had quite a lot in common. Alexander in particular draws our attention to the so-called “Coltrane circle,” which resembles...
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Edie Sedgwick: Who Was Andy Warhol’s Protégé Starlet?
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5 Fascinating Tales of Baba Yaga, the Slavic Witch
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History Today Feed
When the Swastikas Came to White Hart Lane
When the Swastikas Came to White Hart Lane
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Tue, 05/21/2024 - 08:47
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When the Swastikas Came to White Hart Lane
JamesHoare
Tue, 05/21/2024 - 08:47
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What Is Film Noir? A Definition, History, and Impact
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The Thirteenth Amendment: Abolishing Slavery in the USA
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Homo Erectus: The Most Successful Human?
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The Philosophy of the Oxford Group: Vegetarianism & Animal Rights
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Igniting the Cold War: The Berlin Blockade and Airlift
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Nixtamalization: How Ancient Americans Bio-Engineered Corn
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Sarah Mae Flemming and the Forgotten Women of Civil Rights
Sarah Mae Flemming and the Forgotten Women of Civil Rights
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Mon, 12/09/2024 - 09:58
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Sarah Mae Flemming and the Forgotten Women of Civil Rights
JamesHoare
Mon, 12/09/2024 - 09:58
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Maurizio Cattelan’s Duct-Taped Banana Auctioned for $6 Million
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Flashbak
Moe’s Photos of Jacob Riis House On New York City’s Lower East Side 1977-1983
In 1977, Moe a resident of the Jacob Riis Houses decided to capture his neighborhood from East 10th...
5 months ago
In 1977, Moe a resident of the Jacob Riis Houses decided to capture his neighborhood from East 10th Street to East 12th Street on Avenue D, Lower East Side, New York City, writes Efrain ‘Kid Love’ Rodriguez. The Summer was hot, the Son of Sam was terrorizing the streets of New...
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Rare Leonora Carrington Sculpture Heads to Auction
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What Was Négritude?
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Flashbak
Teenagers at Home In the 1980s and 90s In 38 Photos
“As a teenager you are at the last stage in your life when you will be happy to hear that the phone...
9 months ago
“As a teenager you are at the last stage in your life when you will be happy to hear that the phone is for you.” ― Fran Lebowitz We’re back looking at teenagers at home and in their bedrooms in the 1980 an 1990s. We’ve been back there before, checking our the snapshot …...
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10 Palazzos (Palaces) in Venice You Must Visit
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Trying to Understand...
The Missile Will Always Get Through.
But who is prepared to admit it?
4 weeks ago
But who is prepared to admit it?
African History...
a brief note on African travel literature in history
a Swahili document on south-central Africa.
7 months ago
a Swahili document on south-central Africa.
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One Last Look at the Hotel where ‘Trainspotting’, ‘The Big Man’, ‘Taggart’ and Other Shows Were...
You may have never heard of the George Hotel, which once sat at the top of Buchanan Street in...
9 months ago
You may have never heard of the George Hotel, which once sat at the top of Buchanan Street in Glasgow like a ‘great carbuncle’, but you have probably seen parts of its interiors from films like Trainspotting (the circular room used as a backdrop for the drug scene with Keith...
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Medieval Anglo-French Wars (1076-1453): A Brief History
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Classical Wisdom
Can You ‘Believe In The Science’?
The Pre-Socratic Atomists: Pioneers of Modern Science
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The Pre-Socratic Atomists: Pioneers of Modern Science
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What Do We Mean by Aboriginal Languages?
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African History...
A complete history of Jenne: 250BC-1893AD
Journal of African cities chapter 6
a year ago
Journal of African cities chapter 6
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The Siege of Budapest in WWII: Everything You Need to Know
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Rosemaling in America: Norwegian-American Folk Art (Origins & History)
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‘Massacre in the Clouds’ by Kim A. Wagner review
‘Massacre in the Clouds’ by Kim A. Wagner review
JamesHoare
Wed, 08/07/2024 - 09:01
4 months ago
‘Massacre in the Clouds’ by Kim A. Wagner review
JamesHoare
Wed, 08/07/2024 - 09:01
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Night Witches: The Female Russian Combat Unions of the Sky
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Central African Republic: A History of the Wildest State in Africa
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How Did Socrates Shape Classical Greek Philosophy?
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Global Inequality...
James Burnham’s managerialism eighty years later
Like everybody who has studied Marxism from a relatively young age I encountered many quotes of, or...
11 months ago
Like everybody who has studied Marxism from a relatively young age I encountered many quotes of, or comments on, James Burnham's “The Managerial Revolution”. I was quite familiar with Burnham’s ideas but I have not read the book. I don't think that I would have read it, now in...
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13 Logical Fallacies from Aristotle’s ‘Sophistical Refutations’
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5 Most Beautiful Greek Islands You Should Visit
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Classical Wisdom
Centaurs and Snake-Kings
A Halloween event for the Mythologically inclined...
2 months ago
A Halloween event for the Mythologically inclined...
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10 Ancient Sites in New Mexico You Should Visit
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Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Battle of the Historians
a year ago
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Aristotle’s Rhetoric: A Brief Overview
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Hitler’s Health Issues & Medical Ailments: 8 Facts
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Overcoming Bias
Arntz-Gray & I Talk Feminism
At 6:30-8p ET today, I’ll be talking with Regan Arntz-Gray on
4 weeks ago
At 6:30-8p ET today, I’ll be talking with Regan Arntz-Gray on
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The First Anarchist: Who was Pierre-Joseph Proudhon?
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James I: A Foreign King on the English Throne
James I: A Foreign King on the English Throne
JamesHoare
Tue, 05/21/2024 - 08:46
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James I: A Foreign King on the English Throne
JamesHoare
Tue, 05/21/2024 - 08:46
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Why Visit Northumberland? : Britain’s Historic Hidden Gem
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Classical Wisdom
How Should We Treat Our Enemies?
And how does it reflect on us?
a year ago
And how does it reflect on us?
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Rare Ancient Roman Dolphin Mosaic Found in England
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Dreams of Space -...
Cosmodrome (1987)
Cosmodrome is a paper cut-out book that you could use to build a cosmodrome. Admittedly it is...
a year ago
Cosmodrome is a paper cut-out book that you could use to build a cosmodrome. Admittedly it is published in 1987 so it is way out of scope for my blog. But it has some great visuals and so I think it is worth sharing. I have never had the nerve to cut this out and build it. Most...
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5 Tips on How to Approach Conceptual Art
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Who Won the Battle of Nashville?
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What Was the First Triumvirate?
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A History of the United States Senate
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a year ago
History Today Feed
‘The Damascus Events’ and ‘Sea of Troubles’ review
‘The Damascus Events’ and ‘Sea of Troubles’ review
JamesHoare
Mon, 05/27/2024 - 07:00
7 months ago
‘The Damascus Events’ and ‘Sea of Troubles’ review
JamesHoare
Mon, 05/27/2024 - 07:00
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The Harrowing History of the Trail of Tears
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a year ago
Trying to Understand...
Books To Help Us Understand The World?
Well, a few, anyway. And a bit.
a year ago
Well, a few, anyway. And a bit.
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‘Ain Ghazal: One of the Oldest Places in Human Civilization
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Is There Democracy Without Voting? Elections by Lot in Ancient Athens
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Understanding 5 Famous Quotes by Descartes
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8 months ago
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